(anon bc I'm a nerd) but would you recommend any books? 😆 I'm trying to get back into reading and it would be greatly appreciated 💞 love your blog!
AAAAAAA MY FAVORITE KINDS OF ASKS ARE BOOK REC ASKS YES I CAN REC U SOME BOOKS
fantasy/sci fi/magical realsim etc
mistborn trilogy by brandon sanderson
a darker shade of magic by v.e. schwab ★
the archived by victoria schwab
this savage song by victoria schwab
vicious by v.e. schwab
more than this by patrick ness ★
the rest of us just live here by patrick ness ★
an ember in the ashes by sabaa tahir
peter darling by austin chant ★
illuminae by jay kristoff and amie kaufman
the strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender by elizabeth wein ☆
of fire and stars by audrey coulthurst ★
the winner’s trilogy by marie rutkoski ☆
ink and bone by rachel caine ★
we are the ants by shaun david hutchinson ★
timekeeper by tara sim ★
the diviners by libba bray ★
the night circus by erin morgenstern
contemporary
i’ll give you the sun by jandy nelson ★
to all the boys i’ve loved before by jenny han ☆
we are okay by nina lacour ★
if i was your girl by meredith russo ★
you know me well by nina lacour and david levithan ★
the sky is everywhere by jandy nelson
this song is (not) for you by laura nowlin★
if he had been with me by laura nowlin
(★=lgbtq+ representation☆= very minor lgbtq+ representation)
i hope this helped!!!
The reason I've been taught is the Jewish Temple being destroyed. It's like that Temple was destroyed, but the couple now has an obligation to create a spritual one in their home.
The explanation to balance the joy of the wedding, and add seriousness to the occasion I think is based on that. (There's a story in talmud where a rabbi saw the other rabbis there were too excitable so he smashed a really fancy cup and they shut up and chilled a bit.)
I can’t believe Into the Spiderverse casually made Peter Parker canonically Jewish. I feel valid in this chili’s tonight.
people in period clothing doing modern things is my aesthetic
Neil deGrasse Tyson is not impressed with all your sexism.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL
“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”
Details, version II : Dancing Fairies, 1866, by August Malmström. Can you hear them whisper?